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... any work with them to improve their batting or bowling but it also meant a quick and easy training session. Jenna walked from the house past the cricket club so I tagged along with her to walk back to the house to have dinner: chicken with salad and sweet potato wedges. I am proud of Jenna tackling this health kick head on and is giving it 100%, so much so that she has nearly gone cold turkey ...

... that they have won the Ashes already. We headed off to training where again, just because England were doing well in cricket, they thought they would all let me know about it. I don't know why people would ask me "what was Steve Smith doing when he went out" because I'm not Steve Smith, just because I am Australian like him it doesn't mean I know what he was doing! I hate to think if ...

York is a couple hours drive from Manchester, give or take a faulty GPS or two. Anyway, after some meandering about, we managed to locate the city and locate parking that wouldn't cost as much as the car. York is the lynchpin of central England, historically. Many an army of one origin or the other (Scottish, English, Roman, Viking) has traipsed through looking for a fight. As a result, there are significant remnants of these populations left ...

After breakie and seeing Paul off at 9:30, Bob and I went to see where dad came from! We easily found the church (thanks to the car gps) - my gps decided not to show a UK map on it after all (gggrrrrrrrr...) where dad had been baptised and members of his family had been married - Kipping Congregational Church, and had a real glimmer at what the housing is like (and would have been in dad's young childhood - no change!). Saw the sorts of ...

... giant man-made lake. The part was full of rowers, dogs and families enjoying the nice weather.

Moving on from the park, we jumped in Pippa's car and headed to the community of Chapel Allerton, a nice suburb of Leeds. There we grabbed lunch at Sunshine Bakery, which is a ridiculously cute independently owned bakery. We had some delicious steak sandwiches, washed down with homemade raspberry lemonade and capped off with an Oreo brownie. The bakery was ...